Cinemascope: Reaching For The Moon

Cinemascope is a regular blog post where I will share with you movies and TV shows I think are worth watching.

Released in 2013.

Plot line: Based on the true love story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares. This sumptuous English-language 50s period piece recounts the years of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (Miranda Otto, Lord of the Rings) when she left America to live and write in Rio de Janiero where she would fall in love with well-off architect Lota de Macedo Soares (beautifully handsome Brazilian star Glória Pires). 

If you were to watch mainstream Hollywood movies, you get an impression that love stories follow a particular arc. This wonderful movie shatters that mythology. This is a moving, complex, intelligent love story with superb acting, wonderful cinematography in a historical setting. Loved everything about it.

You can see the movie trailer here. If you have yet to see it, this is a movie worth watching.